A 43-year-old lecturer at the University of New Hampshire who was wanted in the murder of a man in North Carolina committed suicide in Florida, authorities said.

Eric Paul Engel of Durham, N.H., was wanted in the shooting death of Aleksander "Lenny" Wysocki, 74, on Friday morning in Cary, N.C., officials said

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Engel, who had been employed as a lecturer in UNH’s Department of Communication since the end of August, told a family member he shot Wysocki, officials said.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office in Florida was told Engel was at Anglers Resort in Dunnellon on Friday night. A SWAT team surrounded the hotel and called Engel, asking him to surrender. Engel did not come out, and was found dead from a gunshot wound, deputies said.

Wysocki was found in a yard at 215 Trent Woods Way around 8:45 a.m. He was taken to Duke University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

"At this point we feel confident that there is an end to the Wysocki tragedy," said Capt. Don Hamilton of the Criminal Investigations Division of the Cary Police Department.